R Observatory: Metrics for altmeta version 4.4

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

altmeta

4.4

Alternative Meta-Analysis Methods

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6.1Kdownloads / year

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Overview

About

Maintained by Lifeng LinFirst published 2016-03-0115 releasesCRAN page ↗

Provides alternative statistical methods for meta-analysis, including: - bivariate generalized linear mixed models for synthesizing odds ratios, relative risks, and risk differences (Chu et al., 2012 doi:10.1177/0962280210393712) - tests and measures for between-study heterogeneity (Lin et al., 2017 doi:10.1111/biom.12543; Wang et al., 2022 doi:10.1002/sim.9261; Yu et al., 2025 doi:10.1186/s12874-025-02719-7); - measures, tests, and visualization tools for publication bias, small-study effects, or related bias (Lin and Chu, 2018 doi:10.1111/biom.12817; Lin, 2019 doi:10.1002/jrsm.1340; Lin, 2020 doi:10.1177/0962280220910172; Shi et al., 2020 doi:10.1002/jrsm.1415); - meta-analysis of combining standardized mean differences and odds ratios (Jing et al., 2023 doi:10.1080/10543406.2022.2105345); - meta-analysis of diagnostic tests for synthesizing sensitivities, specificities, etc. (Reitsma et al., 2005 doi:10.1016/j.jclinepi.2005.02.022; Chu and Cole, 2006 doi:10.1016/j.jclinepi.2006.06.011); - meta-analysis methods for synthesizing proportions (Lin and Chu, 2020 doi:10.1097/ede.0000000000001232); - models for multivariate meta-analysis, measures of inconsistency degrees of freedom in Bayesian network meta-analysis, and predictive P-score (Lin and Chu, 2018 doi:10.1002/jrsm.1293; Lin, 2020 doi:10.1080/10543406.2020.1852247; Rosenberger et al., 2021 doi:10.1186/s12874-021-01397-5).

Install

R (CRAN)Ubuntu (r2u)Fedora (COPR)openSUSE (OBS)

install.packages("altmeta", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

Release

# enable cranapt (r2u) if it is not already set up, then install
grep -rqs r2u.stat.illinois.edu /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ \
  || curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install -y r-cran-altmeta

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# enable the iucar/cran COPR if it is not already present, then install
ls /etc/yum.repos.d/*iucar*cran*.repo >/dev/null 2>&1 \
  || sudo dnf copr enable -y iucar/cran
sudo dnf install -y R-CRAN-altmeta

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

# add the autoCRAN OBS repo (Tumbleweed) if it is missing, then install
zypper -q lr | grep -qi autoCRAN \
  || sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/autoCRAN/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/devel:languages:R:autoCRAN.repo
sudo zypper install -y R-altmeta

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

2NOTE11OK

Failing flavors

NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang
NOTE r-devel-windows-x86_64

Slowest check: 3.7 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

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Tests · ratio 0.00

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Coverage

100%

Documentation · exports

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Dependencies · direct

Check history

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OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMENoVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSNoCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 67%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 40%

Downloads

6.1K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #5,493 · ~17/day · ~505/mo

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

4 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (10)

rjags codagraphicsgrDeviceslme4Matrixmetaformethodsstatsutils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

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Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (8)

Maintainer (1)

Lifeng Lin

Author, Maintainer

Authors (2)

Lifeng Lin

Author, Maintainer

Haitao Chu

Author

Contributors (6)

Yaqi Jing

Contributor · added in 4.2

Kristine J. Rosenberger

Contributor · added in 3.3

Linyu Shi

Contributor · added in 3.1

Yipeng Wang

Contributor · added in 4.1

Xing Xing

Contributor · added in 4.3

Zhiyuan Yu

Contributor · added in 4.3

Package Timeline

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Package metadata

First published: 2016-03-01
Total releases: 15 / 10 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Bundled data: 24 KB / 33 files
Download size: 120 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Lin, L., Chu, H., Jing, Y., Rosenberger, K. J., Shi, L., Wang, Y., Xing, X., & Yu, Z. (2026). altmeta: Alternative Meta-Analysis Methods (Version 4.4) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.altmeta

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for altmeta version 4.4 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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